http://andrewjaswa.com I build crappy websites every day! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:32:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shazam! Sounds fun right? I thought I would start a series about iPhone apps and if I find them useful or not. I'll review things like the interface and the ease of use as well as the functionality of the app. Function Shazam, in case you haven't heard of it, is a music ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/11/iphone-thursday-shazam/ Back in August I moved to Denver Co. to take a job working as a web developer at the University of Colorado Denver. Before I moved here I got a chance to fly out here for an interview and check out the city. Some photos around downtown before and after I ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/11/home-sweet-colorado/ On the 12th of November Google came out with a SEO starter guide. I thought since this will be my very first post about SEO that I would review what they had to say. They have 12 points that they make, most of which are common knowledge. This comes on ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/11/googles-seo-guide/ I've gotten on a kick lately of finding one pagers. That is: sites that only have one page and sometimes provide useful information. Some say that I love them, though I find the concept of them more interesting. I've been looking for these for a bit now and haven't been ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/11/one-pagers/ For some reason I was inspired to post today. Though the only thing that people have been talking about is the elections. In some ways it reminds me of this bash.org quote. I'm also using a fancy new font I found called London Between. That is all. http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/11/get-on-up/ Dear Media Temple, You're trendy. You're sleak and sometimes even sexy. And on the rare occasion your support is actually helpful. However for the past 2 weeks your support has sucked ass. Now I don't mean just a little here and there. I mean big time. I even posted on Get ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/10/dear-media-temple/ [caption id="attachment_73" align="alignnone" caption="Tweet?!"][/caption] Tweet! TWEET! Yes, I've gotten myself into twitter way too much lately. And with that I think I'm ready to release my twitter bot. It's under the GPL. So feel free to use it for things. Here it is: Twitter Bot. And a copy of the GPL ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/10/twitter-bot-part-2/ A little bit ago I built a twitter bot called: AcroPoll. This is a fairly simple bot as all it does is generate a simple string of characters randomly selected from the alphabet and then tweets them. It's part of a game that my friends and I have where someone ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/10/numbers-and-letters-for-words/ I tend not to have any thing political or non-techy here. But a friend of mine and designer Jason Wilson made some fun bumper stickers or other stuff. Well he's got them up for sale over at Cafe Press, go check them out. http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/10/fsm-cthulhu-palin-oh-my/ I came into work this morning like I do on most Mondays. Turned on my computer, fired up a few applacations including Firefox. Thus is my morning routine. My start page for Firefox happens to be iGoogle. Because it holds my gmail, rss feeds and some other fun things. Now I ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/09/igoogle-firefox-3-really/